Filipino Expatriates in the United States - Abe King, April Boy Regino, Benigno Aquino, Jr., Billy Hinsche, E. San Juan, Jr., Elizabeth Cooper, Fely Fr (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Abe King, April Boy Regino, Benigno Aquino, Jr., Billy Hinsche, E. San Juan, Jr., Elizabeth Cooper, Fely Franquelli, Francis Arnaiz, Jose Antonio Vargas, Jose P. Laurel, Lilia Dizon, Manuel L. Quezon, Marlene Dauden, Martin Bautista, Monique Lhuillier, Nora Aunor, Sergio Osmena, Sylvia La Torre. Excerpt: Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (August 19, 1878 August 1, 1944) served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines (as opposed to other historical states). Quezon is considered by most Filipinos to have been the second president of the Philippines, after Emilio Aguinaldo (1897 1901). Quezon was the first Senate president elected to the presidency, the first president elected through a national election, and the first incumbent to secure re-election (for a partial second term, later extended, due to amendments to the 1935 Constitution). He is known as the "Father of the National Language." During his presidency, Quezon tackled the problem of landless peasants in the countryside. Other major decisions include reorganization of the islands' military defense, approval of recommendation for government reorganization, promotion of settlement and development in Mindanao, tackling the foreign strangle-hold on Philippine trade and commerce, proposals for land reform, and the tackling of graft and corruption within the government. Quezon established an exiled government in the US with the outbreak of the war and the threat of Japanese invasion. During his exile in the US, Manuel L. Quezon died of tuberculosis in Saranac Lake, New York. Quezon, was born in Baler in the district of El Principe (which later became Baler, Tayabas, now Baler, Aurora). His Spanish parents were Lucio Quezon and Maria Dolores Molina. His father was a primary grade school teacher from Paco, Manila, and also a retired Sergeant in the Spanish colonial army, while his mother was a primary grade school teacher in their hometown. Although both his parents must have contributed to his education, he received most of his primary education from the public school established by the Spanish government in his village, as part of the establishment of the system of free public education in the Philippines, as he himself test